Well, we had another earthquake in the region of a recent (yesterday and the day before) swarm offshore of Valparaiso, Chile (almost due west of Santiago, one of the largest cities in Chile). My previous report on the M 4-5…
Earthquake Report: Chile!
There have been a number of earthquakes along the subduction zone offshore of Chile. These have happened near the boundary of two Great Earthquakes from 2010 and 2015. This region may be a segment boundary along the subduction zone, albeit…
Earthquake Report: Philippines
I put these together earlier this week for my classes and finally have a moment to write about these earthquakes. The Philippines region has been quite active lately, as it frequently is. I show below a series of earthquakes from…
Earthquake Report: Botswana!
This is a very interesting M 6.5 earthquake, which was preceded by a probably unrelated M 5.2 earthquake. Last September, there was an M 5.7 earthquake in Tanzania along the western shores of Lake Victoria. Here is my report for…
Earthquake Report: Gulf California!
There was an earthquake yesterday in the Gulf of California nearby a series of earthquakes that happened in 2015 and earlier in 2013. The 2017 and 2013 earthquakes are happening along a fault that forms the Carmen Basin and the…
Earthquake Report: Kamchatka!
This earthquake happened last night as I was preparing course materials for this morning. Initially it was a magnitude 6.9, but later modified to be M 6.9. This earthquake happened in an interesting region of the world where there is…
Good Friday Earthquake 27 March 1964
In March of 1964, plate tectonics was still a hotly debated topic at scientific meetings worldwide. Some people still do not accept this theory (some Russian geologists favor alternative hypotheses; Shevchenko et al., 2006). At the time, there was some…
Earthquake Report: Bougainville and Solomons
In the past couple of weeks, there were some earthquakes in the equatorial western Pacific. Here are the USGS websites for the two largest earthquakes in the two regions. 2017.03.04 M 6.1 2017.03.19 M 6.0 The M 6.1 was a…
Earthquake Report: Sumatra!
There were two interesting earthquakes near the northern tip of the Island of Sumatra whilst I was off on a field trip with some HSU geology students. So, I think it prudent to review these earthquakes now. These earthquakes happened…
Earthquake Report: Cape Mendocino Region
We just had an interesting earthquake in the region of the Mendocino triple junction. Recent earthquakes in this region show different fault plane solutions, owing to complexity of this area. In 1983 there was an earthquake ~10 km to the…